Damaged - 1914
Originally posted on Heaps of Metal 26.01.20
Band: Damaged
Album: 1914
Released: October 18, 2019
Track list:
1 - 1914
2 - Time to Kill
3 - Fallujah
4 - Invisible
Battle Scars
5 - In the Killing Fields
6 - Death from Above
7 - The Endless War
8 - Terror Alert
Damaged is a Puerto Rican thrash metal band that was initially formed in 1989 but split up in 1991. They reformed again in 2015 with original members Jose Oscar Torres (guitars, lead vocals) and Hector Luis Colon (drums) and new bass player Charlie Force.
The album 1914 unsurprisingly has many songs about war, but isn’t a concept album concentrating only on WW1.
Besides all the American thrash bands they cite as influences, I’m reminded of Celtic Frost, particularly on “In the Killing Fields”, as well as old Iced Earth and Satan. The solos vary between very melodic ones and more Slayer inspired ones.
I like the melodic leads and the clean parts. The songs are more complex than what one would expect of many bands in the thrash genre, and 1914 has even a great melodic clean guitar melody.
The transitions between various parts of the song are a bit too sudden, and could have profited of some kind of build up, like they did on the song “Invisible Battle Scars”
The vocals are mixed too loud and mostly too dry for my taste. An exception is “Terror Alert”, where I find the vocal to be just right in the mix. It would also be interesting to hear the songs in their native language.
Personally, I’m against narrated parts in songs. There are several narrated parts on this album, and they mostly seem unnecessary to convey the stories of the songs
All in all, Damaged sounds very old school but still interesting, making several unexpected twists on the songs on this album.
link to facebook: https://www.facebook.com/damagedthrash/
Band: Damaged
Album: 1914
Released: October 18, 2019
Track list:
1 - 1914
2 - Time to Kill
3 - Fallujah
4 - Invisible
Battle Scars
5 - In the Killing Fields
6 - Death from Above
7 - The Endless War
8 - Terror Alert
Damaged is a Puerto Rican thrash metal band that was initially formed in 1989 but split up in 1991. They reformed again in 2015 with original members Jose Oscar Torres (guitars, lead vocals) and Hector Luis Colon (drums) and new bass player Charlie Force.
The album 1914 unsurprisingly has many songs about war, but isn’t a concept album concentrating only on WW1.
Besides all the American thrash bands they cite as influences, I’m reminded of Celtic Frost, particularly on “In the Killing Fields”, as well as old Iced Earth and Satan. The solos vary between very melodic ones and more Slayer inspired ones.
I like the melodic leads and the clean parts. The songs are more complex than what one would expect of many bands in the thrash genre, and 1914 has even a great melodic clean guitar melody.
The transitions between various parts of the song are a bit too sudden, and could have profited of some kind of build up, like they did on the song “Invisible Battle Scars”
The vocals are mixed too loud and mostly too dry for my taste. An exception is “Terror Alert”, where I find the vocal to be just right in the mix. It would also be interesting to hear the songs in their native language.
Personally, I’m against narrated parts in songs. There are several narrated parts on this album, and they mostly seem unnecessary to convey the stories of the songs
All in all, Damaged sounds very old school but still interesting, making several unexpected twists on the songs on this album.
link to facebook: https://www.facebook.com/damagedthrash/
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